GURDASPUR (PUNJAB) : Preliminary investigation into the Gurdaspur
police station attack that killed seven people seems to indicate that
the group of suspected Lashker-e-Taiba militants had crossed over to the
Indian side from Pakistan’s Shakargarh area, according to reports.

Writing for the Indian Express, Praveen Swami quoted unnamed sources as saying that the militants left a safehouse on the fringes of Gharot, a village near Shakargarh, late Sunday night.
PTI
reported that the three militants who held up a police station had
entered the country through Bamiyal village close to the International
Border. The investigators are pinning their hope on seized Global
Positioning System (GPS) to ascertain the movements of the militants who
were killed in the gunbattle. The GPS has been sent for forensic
examination.
As part of the probe, a high-level forensic team
today visited the abandoned building near the Dinanagar police station
where the terrorists were holed up. The four-member team led by Davinder
Pal Sehgal and Ashwani Kumar started their investigations, police said.

Director General of Punjab Police Sumedh Singh Saini had said the
terrorists were carrying sophisticated weapons. "We have recovered 'Made
in China' grenades from them.
They were wearing combat fatigues,"
he had said. Saini said AK 47 guns and hand grenades were recovered
from the terrorists, who had attacked the sentry at the police station
before engaging with the SHO and the SP.
He had described the attack as "planned" as their modus operandi pointed at a specific direction.
Seven
persons -- Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab
provincial service officer and three home guards and three civilians --
were killed by the suspected terrorists yesterday.
Senior
Superintendent of Police Gurdaspur Gurpreet Singh said the bodies of the
militants have been kept at the civil hospital and their weapons were
being examined. An alert has been sounded along the international border
in Punjab and Jammu as the terrorists are suspected to have infiltrated
from there.
Dinanagar town, which is close to Pakistan, falls in
Gurdaspur district. It is sandwiched between Gurdaspur town on the one
side and Pathankot on the other and lies about 260 km from capital
Chandigarh.